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January 28, 2021 Archives
Thursday, January 28, 2021
TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: Why SpaceX Will Catch Super Heavy
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CONTEXT: A Bound System of Six Stars, Including Three Eclipsing Binaries
📣Discovery alert!📣
— NASA Exoplanets (@NASAExoplanets) January 27, 2021
In a first, astronomers find a system of six stars made of three eclipsing binaries. Stars orbit their partners and pairs circle each other. It's a star dance party in space! @NASA's TESS space telescope spotted this strange system.https://t.co/iVGdrwkUyy pic.twitter.com/SYpeadmpML
Here is the scientific paper: “TIC 168789840: A Sextuply-Eclipsing Sextuple Star System”. This is going to be great fun to model with numerical integration.
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13:43
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Open Source CubeSats Ease the Pain of Building Your Own
Open Source CubeSats Ease The Pain Of Building Your Own
— hackaday (@hackaday) January 28, 2021
Space is hard, especially if you haven’t done it before. A growing number of CubeSats are launched by small, inexperienced teams every year, and a number of them fail due to missing some small but … https://t.co/AafdPbivIu
Here are the GitHub repositories with the hardware design files and software source code.
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11:42